Safety Magic show cautions on teen driving habits
Lt. Carl S. Pike on leave from Michigan's Kent county sheriff's dept warned Bedford students that teen drivers cause the bad name for the group. He presented eight rules to avoid danger and staged tricks from his Safety Magic program funded by the American Trucking Association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl S. Pike
Bedford
Pike
Kenty County
Grand Rapids
Michigan
Kay Hanshaw
Connie Newbury
Don Spencer
T. V
Ed Polson
Public Safety Department of
Iowa
Mr. Pike
American Trucking Association
Special Band Music For Snowball Dance
Danny Roy and his Knights of Swing provide the music for the Snowball Dance at 8 00 p m next Monday December 19 at the B H S gym open to the public admission charged Senior class sponsors the event Student committees include General Sandra Busby Charles Cumberlin Lanny De Mott Decorations Paul Freemeye Shirley Goudie Fred Helm Carol Livingston Publicity and Tickets Vivian Long Neil Rowe Judy Terrell and Sharri Warner
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danny Roy
Knights of Swing
B. H. S. Gymnasium
Sandra Busby
Charles Cumberlin
Lanny de Mott
Paul Freemyey
Shirley Goudie
Fred Helm
Carol Livingston
Vivian Long
Neil Rowe
Judy Terrell
Sharri Warner
Dec lunch menus preview week of December 15 22
The menu lists daily meals from December 15 through December 22 including barbecued sandwiches with corn and apricot pineapple crisp on December 15, chicken and noodles on December 16, beef and vegetable stew on December 19, pork and beans on December 20, and baked weiners on December 21 with sides of vegetables bread and fruit. It also includes two quotes about inner peace and progress attributed to Rochefoucauld and Mary Baker Eddy.
Bedford junior high honor roll numbers 18
Eighteen Bedford junior high students earned honors for the second six weeks. Six eighth graders and twelve seventh graders made the B average honor roll. Eighth grade honorees include Gregory Guenther Larry McGee Patricia Nappier Martha Perkins Harold Shepherd and Sharon Underwood. Seventh grade honorees include Loretta Abernathy David Akers Linda Browne Judy Hanshaw Sue Hartman Sharon Hensch Jerry Matheny Marilyn Beck Fannie Smith Richard Steward Virginia Thompson and David Dyckoff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bedford Junior High
Roy Reith
Gregory Guenther
Larry McGee
Patricia Nappier
Martha Perkins
Harold Shepherd
Sharon Underwood
Loretta Abernathy
David Akers
Linda Browne
Judy Hanshaw
Sue Hartman
Sharon Hensch
Jerry Matheny
Marilyn Beck
Fannie Smith
Richard Steward
Virginia Thompson
David Dyckoff
Drivers' Training Classes Begin Night at BHS
B H S drivers' training classes started with Lyal Shirk supervising night sessions. Four students take turns driving to Shenandoah each evening for about 45 minutes on highways and 10 minutes in city traffic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B.H.S
Lyal Shirk
Shenandoah
Janet Akers
Julia Brown
Bonnie Carroll
Twila Crowe
Joye Emert
Naomi Hardee
Virginia Haynie
Sandra Helm
Deloris Hoops
Julia Meikle
Ben Murphy
Bill Murphy
Dwayne Powell
Mary Anne Sharp
Marilyn Woldruff
Teenagers View Safe Driving Film
Lyal Shirk led a Teen-Age Driver's Club meeting on December 6 where members watched Driving Under Adverse Conditions. The Iowa Department of Safety distributes the film and it covered night fog snow rain ice skidding prevention and hot weather driving tips. The next meeting is set for December 20.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyal Shirk
Iowa Department of Safety
Christmas program planned by Bedford schools
Bedford schools announce a Christmas program on Tuesday December 20 at 7 30 p m in the school auditorium. Junior high students perform a pageant The Madonnas Choice grades 1 6 present an operetta The Little Blue Angel and the high school mixed chorus performs Twas the Night Before Christmas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bedford Schools
Bonnie Brown
FFA Chapter Donates Christmas Trees to Bedford Grade Rooms
Bedford grade school rooms receive Christmas trees courtesy of the local FFA chapter. Trees were furnished to all grades and junior high rooms as part of a recurring donation project. Norman Annan, vocational agriculture instructor, notes teachers chose their own trees at a local store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bedford
Norman Annan
Local students eat eight and a quarter pounds chocolate
Bedford school pupils consumed eight and a quarter pounds of chocolate on Friday December 2 as hot lunch cooks Mrs. Helen Spencer and Mrs. Minnie Hatfield explain the quantity used to prepare Friday’s chocolate pudding for hot lunches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bedford School
Helen Spencer
Minnie Hatfield
RHS Students Prefer Regular Enlistment
A poll of R. H. S. junior and senior classes shows a preference for regular enlistment over short-term training. Conducted by Mrs. Kathryn M. Kirketey with Scholastic Magazine sponsorship, the survey notes higher interest in education after graduation among respondents. Scholastic editors will publish national poll results later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kathryn M. Kirketey
Scholastic Magazine
Kirketeg
Senior Class Select Official Graduation Announcement Design
The forty nine B H S seniors ordered name cards and graduation announcements. Class officers chose two styles in November and the entire class voted to select the official design. Deliveries expected late March or early April per Supt. R F Van Dyke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B.H.S
Supt
R. F. van Dyke
Bible as Great Book of Books Highlighted at Chapel
Rev. Robert Peters, local Methodist minister, spoke at the BHS chapel on December 8. He traced the Bible’s origin and the steps by which it has come down to us. December 8 chapel organizers were Joe Gunsom, Maurice Caskey and James Marley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Peters
B.H.S. Auditorium
Peters
Joe Gunson
Maurice Caskey
James Marley
Local Red Cross Bloodmobile Appeal Highlights Cooperation
Leonard Moore urged cooperation ahead of Rev. Peters' address in the December 14 Red Cross Bloodmobile drive. He said giving blood requires courage and a religious spirit because donors are doing something for humanity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peters
Leonard Moore
Red Cross
Moore
New Market Community Notes Include Weddings Visits Moves
New Market residents reported visits from family and friends across Nebraska and Missouri. Weddings, school enrollments, and moving announcements appear alongside a barn fire response and holiday turkey winners.
Memory Circle and Church Social Roundup in Gravity Area
Social notices from Gravity and nearby towns note the Memory Happy Hour group hosting a Christmas gift exchange with eleven members and five children, Joy Class party at the Church of Christ, and forthcoming V-Teen Vesper Service at the Methodist church. Also featured are family travels, a New Market Church of Christ fish fry with speakers, Legion Auxiliary meetings, Holiness Association events, and a Brockton Maryville wedding for Miss Phyllis Joyce Arthur and Robert Armond Brown with detailed ceremony and reception descriptions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarice Foster
Memory Happy Hour Club
Grace’ Glassgow
Eva Karg
Estelle Hipsley
Church of Christ
Pauline Harland
Robert Dougherty
Joe Journey
Omaha
Nebr
Joe
Veterans Hospital
Journey
David Greer
Paul Savage
California
Methodist Church
New Market Church of Christ
Gravity
Griswold
Berty Travis
Bedford
Legion Auxilary
Will Harper
Mark Anderson
Harry Roberts
Southwestern Iowa Holiness Association
Gravity Free Methodist Church
Lulu Overholt
Herman Underwood
David Johnson
Southwest Iowa Holiness Association
Arthur Brown Baptists
Phyllis Joyce Arthur
Arthur
New Market
Robert Armond Brown
H. E. Brown
Brockton
Clarence Moore
Ruthie Tebow
Maryville
Walt Hopkins
St. Joseph
Harold O'Connell
Betty Hainey
Sheridan church activities and social notes include gifts and visits
The Sunday school class at the Sheridan Methodist Church met with 16 members and one visitor as they exchanged Christmas gifts. Funeral attendees from Bedford and local visits are noted along with revival services led by Rev. Cash and a Methodist fish fry fundraiser for the Band Mothers club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dall Churchill
George Reid
Athelstan
Sheridan
Icie Jenkins
Christian Church
Charles Cash
St. Joseph
Methodist Church
Jemima
Band Mothers Club
Billy Anders
Des Moines
Christmas program planned by Christian church in Blockton
Mrs Geo M Bentley reports a social weekend with visits among Loghry Cole Johnston and Thomas families in Maryville. The Christian church announces its annual Christmas program for Sunday evening December 18. Ladies of Christian church will host Methodist ladies Wednesday afternoon and collect fifty cent gifts to aid both churches. Local residents visiting relatives include Weaton John of Godford Mose Henney L H Kidney and others from Kansas City, Ottawa and Omaha. Benjamin Franklin and George Washington quotes finish page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo. M. Bentley Blockton
Ray Loghry
Verla
Marcelene
Crestor
Harry Loghry
Mable Cole
Tom. Johnston
Lyman Johnston
Barbara
Frances Thomas
Maryville
Christian Church
The
Methodist Church
Janet Lea
Kansas City
Hattie Wilson
Ottawa
Kanas
Doyle “Roberts
Omaha
Leland Stitts
Kans
Hazel Walker
Glenwood
Robert A. Brown
Mary Booher
Vongene
Sidney
H. E. Brown
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Bedford School News
BHS Journalism
Depari
BHS
Retha K. Barnes
Lula M. Brand
Norma Bristow
Bill Fellows
Larry Hoffman
Rebecca Moore
Ronald Beaver
Elaine Cummings
Larry Hatfield
Julia Henry
Bonnie John
Nancy Marley
Wanda McNutt
Ann Timberlake
Andrew Carnegie
FFA
RHS
Robt. Peters
L.C.F
Chevrolet
Emmert Motor Sales
America
Aoa Ae
Redford
Carolyn Scott
Seamer Neely
Donald Long
Nebraska City
Billy Murren
Oregon
Ed Murren
Maurice Hansen
Clearfield
Merle Parsons
Nancy Hawkins
Clifford Thompson
Baptist Church
Shenanagan
Blanche Damewood
L. N. Crawford
Bennie Wolfe
Cherokee
Ollie Johnson
Bessie Harris
Charles Clayton
Pueblo
Colo
Ralph Kendrick
Hubert Corbin
Holstein
Ernest Pearson
Clarinda
Edna Moorman
Rex Moorman
Atlantic
Mae Pierce
Lincoln
Darmond Fuller
Villisca
Rogcoe
Harry Stout
Colorado Springs
Claude Stout
Albert Radke
Clifford Drennen
Frankfurt
Indiana
Nellie Arthur
Don Hensley
Marvin Arthur
Harry Brown
Blockton
Mary Booker
Janis Arthur
Guy Poore
Steve Amrine
Warden Loutzenhiser
Jack Winemiller
George Sefrit
Donna Pierson
Brown
Filmore Street
Bedford Gas Service
Charley Howe
Kohler
John H. Moore
Wells Bros
Benjamin Franklin
George Washington
Sharpsburg
Mariners
Pete Jamison
Beemer Bros
Spencer Peck
State Savings Bank
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